German prosperity and external threats made liberal reform seem less urgent

Evidence

The economic prosperity, between 1850 and 1871, of an industrializing Germany had made radical (that is liberal) reform less urgent, while the ubiquitous international machinations and the persistent hostility of Napoleon III to German unity underscored the logic of nationalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 328

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The German Miracle stemmed from postwar rebuilding, not pro-market reforms — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 588; Germany’s postwar success depended on external macroeconomic favors rarely acknowledged by German policy makers — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 908; Liberal German elites backed monarchy to avoid Slavic-majority democratic rule — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 109